July 2012
‘How TERAYAMA Shuji Treated Television
An Analysis of the TV Drama, Ippiki (1963) Discovered in the NHK Archives’ by HORIE Hidefumi
Yumiko Hara
This is the first part of a column series, Introduction of a Trial Project on Academic Use of the NHK Archives, which features the findings of the project. Since FY 2009, NHK has been working on the trial project on academic research using TV programs and news collected in the NHK Archives. So far 28 studies have been approved and we are seeing some research outcomes. This column is to introduce academic papers, which have been published at a pace of three to four releases per year as fruits of work. The author of the first paper we introduce is a researcher who has been researching Shuji Terayama. He investigated into a TV program related to Terayama which is stored in the NHK Archives. The program is called Ippiki – the very first TV drama for which Terayama wrote the script. He viewed it, discovered the difference in the content between the published script and the broadcast, and examined the meaning of it. In this paper the author confirms in a concrete shape that Terayama knew the different characteristics of various media including books, radio, television, movies, etc. and purposefully employed different modes of expression. This study serves as a good example that starkly shows the efficacy and the significance of research on the use of archives.
The trial project involves not only media research but also diverse studies on literature, architecture, medical, and other fields. Further details are available at the URL below.
//www.nhk.or.jp/archives/academic/ (Japanese language only)